Factions Download Center

[ElimiNator]

Yah, the more exposure the better.

[ElimiNator]

Added Undead and Prax.

I can't find a download for Prax though, I heard about people playing it.

Any download to add?

[Omega]

I can't find a download for Prax though, I heard about people playing it.

Any download to add?

Last I heard, it was a closed beta. I'm sure a finished product will be available in the near future, though.

[atze]

I can't find a download for Prax though, I heard about people playing it.

Any download to add?

Last I heard, it was a closed beta. I'm sure a finished product will be available in the near future, though.

Correct  , Prax-Mod ( version 0.5.8 ) is available, even directly over Mod-Centre and download see Prax-thread.

[tomreyn]

Here's an update on broken links - I guess at least 50% of the links in the first post fail now (and this will just get worse over time unless we act):

Megapack
Woodsmen
Japanese
Undead
Dark Magic (No Download)
Dark Magic (No Download)
Malevolent Rising (No Download) -  times out
Undersea (Aqua-Pack)
BattleGlest
Orcs (No Download)
Green Dawn Martian Invasion - 2 of 3 downloads are available (ghost town map is missing)
Animal Cruelity (No download)
Apocalyptic Dawn - 1 of 3 downloads are available (7-zip and Linux packages are missing)
Whimsical Forest
Bio, Nano, Influx (No download) - points to "Influx", a first person perspective puzzle game unrelated to *Glest*
Raiders (No Download)
Project Green (No download)

I guess keeping this list makes less and less sense. I think it would be better to keep copies of what we think should be retained (can be all that is still accessible) in multiple places, including our own hosting, which will shortly get remote backup capabilities, too. If someone is willing to go over the list and point out what should be retained, what the files should be named and how they should be titled (friendly name / description of the download), and - optionally, just where it's possible to tell (incl. reference), which license they are  - I'll be happy to download them and host them on our servers, providing updates download links and instructions for mirroring them.

For now I guess we should unsticky this post since it's kind of misleading when so many links are broken. Such a list would also be better maintained on a wiki where several people can edit them.

Finally I don't agree with the quality measurements, those seem to be rather subjective (but I'm happy to discuss this separately, or not at all).

[ElimiNator]

Can you make a sticky locked thread that links to the wiki downloads page?

Ill move all the working faction links to the wiki. (And recommend ones that should be re-hosted)

Unfortunately most of these factions are just factions not techtrees, so they can't be directly put into the in-game download centre.

Maybe if you think its a good idea, I can combine some matching factions into techtrees?

[tomreyn]

Sure, just tell me the URL to point to once it's done. Note that Omega and I just moved the Wiki to our own hosting.

I think it would be a remarkable improvement to wrap all factions up in a tech tree just by itself, since this makes it easy to actually try them. This would lay the foundation to do balancing work allowing several of these factions to be joined in techtrees. (But if you already have an obvious pairing, sure, why not.)

Thanks for offering to work on this, I hope there can be additional contributors.

[John.d.h]

I've fixed the link to Project Green.  Wow, I released that almost two and a half years ago!?  Yowza! 

http://www.moddb.com/mods/project-green/downloads/project-green-v03

[ElimiNator]

It won't let me edit the wiki. How to I create an account?

[Omega]

It won't let me edit the wiki. How to I create an account?

Aha, our first "bug". Anonymous account creation and editing was disabled. I've re-enabled them both.

[ElimiNator]

How do I upload images? Also I can't open the "Other" and "Tools" menus on the side-bar, they just close again instantly.

[tomreyn]

You can upload files here (I haven't tested it, yet): https://docs.megaglest.org/Special:Upload

[Omega]

Also I can't open the "Other" and "Tools" menus on the side-bar, they just close again instantly.

Thanks for reminding me about this. I spotted it earlier, but forgot to fix it. It was caused by a conflicting, unnecessary extension, and should be fixed now.

[ElimiNator]

OK, all the mods with downloads have been moved to to wiki.

Mods that (If their not) should be in the in-game download centre (in my opinion) are:
Woodsmen
Undead
Prax
Japanese
Iroquois
Dwarves
Elves
Imperial

Some kind of pack(s) with these?

[will]

Mr War's Martians Sci-Fi on the list?

[ElimiNator]

I don't think there was a working download.

EDIT: OK, the main page's download wad broken, but I found your download. Its up now.

[tomreyn]

So, for now, the new location is https://docs.megaglest.org/Mods/List
This may change to https://docs.megaglest.org/wiki/Mods/List soon.

Instead of two lists with several broken links, we now have one list with several broken links. That's (seriously) an improvement - thanks Eliminator! - but more quality time will need to be spent to point out which downloads actually work and which mods are lost.

Also, I think we want to make this (docs.megaglest.org) a MegaGlest (and compatible) only site soon, because it is currently quite difficult to find your way on the wiki if you're a new user and have no idea what vanilla Glest and GAE are (and the old wiki is retained at Wikia for reference). But this will need to be part of a larger overhaul of the wiki.

That said, I've un-stickied this topic (I don't see the need to close it, we may want to continue discussion here for a while - though the wiki related discussion could also go onto the "Discussion" page there) and added a new sticky with a link to the wiki.